Linux Crash Course - Formatting & Mounting Storage Volumes

[@mrrobbles]

Bro... I can't thank you enough for this. 20 years in the IT world and just getting into ZFS. It's been rough.. Until I found this. I love the pausing points for commands, to extra info and everything you displayed. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! Legit helped solve 15+ issues I was having you rock!

[@ricardokullock2535]

My brain *really* wants to type the "n" in the "umount" command. I don't type it, but it's like an itch. Every. Single. Time. Makes me think it's like this on purpose, like someone had a dark sense of humor. Great videos by the way, you're very pedagogical.

[@spruce-bogey]

$ alias unmount=umount

[@ricardokullock2535]

@@spruce-bogey That’s actually a great idea, simple, effective. Thank you.

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

Yeah. And we also need an alias called "fsidk" to fdisk. Don't know why. That's how my brain tries to type it...everytime.

[@marklamarr3576]

lol same here!!

[@brandhark7935]

OMG SAME LMAO

[@EduardoReyesDPM]

Amazing job... You've summed up what's taking me many months possibly years of random research and summed it up in 30 minutes in a definitive manner

[@EliteBuildingCompany]

I couldn't access the new hard drive initially, so i had to take further steps: -make sure you are mounted to the new folder -then change owner with, chown username -R /mnt/yourfolder I was now able to save and access files. I then modified the fstab for auto mount at start. Great tutorial, danke.

[@rudyleplane727]

I learn soooo much from you every video! Priceless Linux tutorials!

[@mason8714]

I learn so much from you its unreal! thank you so far for all the content. i like the way you explain how things work or what things do for simple people like me. 38 and still trying to get in to linux (windows user for over 25 years.) always wanted to learn linux but never put any time in to it till this year. purchased your latest book too. keep up the fantastic work jay!

[@daiblaze1396]

Same here ! No longer a beginner in Linux but I still discover new stuff or understand way more what it meant thanks to him. Beginners keep it up. You'll wonder what you have been doing on losedos.

[@veggiebroth5542]

I started studying for my redhead certification and I know so much of the material already just from following along with your videos. You could seriously charge for these things. You've been an invaluable source of information

[@MeMe-ic6rc]

People are not same.

[@holgerd5242]

I'd love to get a certification in redheads. Is there a certification for brunettes too?

[@jimle22]

He does have a paid Linux Certification course on Udemy.

[@Tomfoolery8869]

Redhate

[@elielberra2867]

Wow these series of videos are amazing! I can't explain how thankful I am for all the content you posted, I've learned a lot! Your explanations have a good pace and you put everything on super understandable terms :)

[@CocolinoFan]

23:40 Thank you for telling me, I will mount things properly from now on. But that's why I love to use Linux it lets you do what you want :D you are the ADMIN of the machine

[@jamesr736]

I'm a bit late, but adding this for others who are in my shoes. The flag used at 20:30 only applies to the mkfs.exfat command. If you use the mkfs.ext4 command, >use -L "label"< instead

[@AlayDhagia]

Very informative hands on once you have theoretical knowledge on the topics. Thank you for putting this up!!

[@pk-all-day]

I got lucky today and kept getting served all the tutorials of yours that I needed to approach/wrap up a project! Another good explainer.

[@NekomatchaJun]

Thank you for the tutorial even though I'm years late to it. This helped me revive a drive that I had been using for a Windows 11 system that was not behaving on Linux despite being a compatible format.

[@mortenlund1418]

You deserve many more likes. Your way of explaining is perfect. Thanks a lot.

[@phaedrus2633]

This got me out of a rut. I was pulling my hair out trying to edit /etc/fstab to work correctly for a Nextcloud install. If I only used Linux a lot more, I would grasp the concept of partitioning and adding a file system to a hard drive, or any drive. Thank you so much!

[@elnurvalikhanli6783]

This guy is so intelligent!

[@t.harris4309]

Awesome tutorial. You got me restarted with Linux. I've played around with it off and on but now i want to focus more on it and you video really helped.

[@jamescarson4507]

Came across your video yesterday, and my problems were solved And i had one nice Saturday... Thanks👍

[@brod515]

@9:53 another good command for this is `watch lsblk` which will just refresh automatically after an interval it's much clearer like this (the screen just refreshes)

[@guillermolopez7327]

Wow! Thanks!

[@youtubeoneverything4581]

I love your videos so much. neat, noob friendly & to-the-point. I'm really looking forward to your fstab video. finally there is going to be a video which explains everything about auto mounting in boot in a beginner friendly way

[@skoishmaloish499]

Thanks so much for the detailed video. This is the third video I watched to figure out how disk formatting and mounting works in Linux, and yours was the one that finally helped me figure it out. Thanks for all your awesome content!

[@nickya-yv9ep]

literally greatest youtube video I've ever seen. tyxm!!!!

[@edison3571]

A large thank you! As a newbie, you go slow enough for me to understand and feel comfortable working with the terminal.

[@bobbylibertini]

This was [Tony The Tiger voice:] GGRRrrreat! I've been using Linux exclusively for the last 14 years, but I'm just learning this stuff due to some trouble I had with an SD card and a thumb drive...had fixed my problem already, but wanted a good understanding so I'll be prepared for next time......and now I feel like a pro! Thank you.

[@vegasmagicman]

who tf downvotes this

[@BierPizzaChips]

Maybe somebody old with bad eyes like me having trouble distinguishing the two little thumbs on the mobile being so close to each other.😂

[@Lemon-e2y]

someone who clearly sees his bs, he didn’t say how to properly allocate specific memory size to a partition

[@billgates3699]

@@Lemon-e2ybingo. Another downvote for me

[@nxzstudio8495]

A hateful windows user or Microsoft employee?

[@mrrobot-mn6re]

Probably crowdstrike employees

[@ALR0808]

I am so glad to have found your channel. Thank you very much for all of that information; it was very helpful.

[@arturooo78]

Best tutorial for absolute beginners. 10/10

[@yomisaurio]

Thank you Jay for such useful information and your efforts sharing the knowledge. Kind regards from mexico

[@docmalitt]

hi, it's been a while but this subject is timeless (just like Linux) so to install exfat on the system @18:22 you need to change 'exfat-utils' to 'exfatprogs' - at least on Pop-OS Jammy (22.04 LTS) - in case anyone gets an error regarding 'exafat-utils' package. Otherwise... HUGE fan of your entire work. Thank you for dedicating life (spare time) in teaching lazy bastards like me :)

[@peponvatrahedes7392]

Excellent guide! I also faced a problem where I couldn't manage the new partition as a User. So I had to do "sudo chown user:user /mount_dir" to gain ownership.

[@Moonlight0551]

Thank you, I am learning so much. BTW I found with my version of Ubuntu ,22.04 Jammy, when it came to installing the exfat option for mkfs I had to use 'sudo apt install exfatprogs'

[@guillermolopez7327]

Thank you so much Jay, you are uniq && sudo. I saw one of your most personal videos. The one you talked about being stubborn and achieve your dreams. You are such an inspiration! Quick update on your video. lsblk command on Ubuntu 24 is way less clogged with -e7 flag. It removes the annoying loops partitions. lsblk -e7

[@D3M0320]

Your videos are absolutely fantastic and I appreciate all of the knowledge you share!

[@Sabee_2024]

Very helpful and exactly what I needed, Thank you!!

[@cristif92]

I am here for understanding how operate a cmd line debian, in short a Raspberry Pi (lite) machine. very helpfull video. Can't wait to watch the second one, with the fstab file 🙂

[@RicoRico33110]

Thank you....i've been trying this for so long ..i really appreciate your work..Great job.

[@Superman12321]

Thank you for you help and all your videos. I've been watching a lot of your videos and they have been super helpful for a beginner like me. You are awesome and keep up the great work.

[@charlesklein7232]

at 21:01 you said that you covered the "forward slash" (/) in anther video, which video? how do i find it?

[@GustavAgar]

I wish i have money to pay you for what you are doing, but im still a broken student. I have learnt a lot through your videos and i soon as i have a job i will become your patreon

[@cybernit3]

I am trying to format my usb flash drive and tried to follow Linux TV directions but have an error. I unmount sda; sudo umount /media/alext/'UBUNTU 24_0' lsblk // yes, it unmounted sudo fdisk /dev/sda fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Read-only file system then back to the prompt... Perhaps this usb flash drive is dead so it sets a flag for read only. I used this usb drive to install ubuntu but want to use it for something else. It is a 64 GB Team Group usb drive. Thanks if anyone can help....

[@guillermolopez7327]

if you are still on Linux and you have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) you can always use gparted. Very easy to install on virtually any linux distribution. You don't have to use the command line for this. Hope this helps.

[@clivesgarage]

this is sooooo frustrating. I cannot find the previous video you talking about. I've searched everywhere. What is the title of the video please?

[@Кит-ю6у]

Nearly perfect video.... except you left out the part that I need. I want to partition my nvme to install Arch linux. EVERYTHING that I find is showing the Windows process. I found some tools, but nothing specifically gives directions for creating a partition. What do you use to get the p1 and p2?

[@IamDoQtorNo]

Great video. Appreciate the content. I installed a baracuda 2nd hd, that I am planning on using primarily as the SQL server. my boot drive is an ssd. How do I install sql server on that drive? Do you ahve a video that speaks on that? Also, if i understand your steps correctly in the video, mount the HD, then fdisk to format it?

[@Wardaug]

so when I got to section mount to a dir, I ran the command and this is what i got "sudo mount /dev/sda1/Oryxbackup mount: /dev/sda1/Oryxbackup: can't find in /etc/fstab. " @ 25:05 in vid when i navitage to \home/media it show the dir I made.

[@motoryzen]

Why do you haven't as /home\media? Backspace is mainly a Microsoft Windows thing. /home/media is more common

[@AriannaEuryaleMusic]

Thank you for teaching all this, I´ve learned a lot from your tutorials. My notebook is almost full (Kali Linux user here)

[@ScreenPrintR]

Thank you, do have a video that shows how to prepare a hard drive for initial installation of Linux? I have a new SSD hard drive, and I want to replace a hard drive from the beginning and do a new install of Linux Centos 8 (for school). I boot from a USB boot-able but the Installation screen never comes up. Thank you in advance. P.S. The old hard drive will only boot in rescue mode with option skip (i.e. anacode).

[@NoEgg4u]

@18:00 (formatting the partition to be compatible with Windows). Why exfat, and not ntfs? Is it because Pop!_OS does not support ntfs? Is it to be compatible with ancient versions of Windows? Something else?

[@rajeshroshan2877]

Thank you for these wonderfully clear and well taught tutorials.

[@HawkLad]

if i want to mount a external drive that has my plex media on it and use it for the plex media server on linux, does it have to be erased or can I keep the media and mount the drive so plex can use it

[@ME-yi3qf]

Awesome simple easy to follow video. Thank you

[@Jayphil1]

Hey i am doing this on my steamdeck. I ran the command to show me where are the suitsble mount points but i noticed i only see mnt which is used to mount my system. I do not see media. My mountpoint for my sd card is /run/media which is the defaulr as it should be but for some reason the card will not mount no matter what

[@cleightthejw2202]

I definitely appreciate these videos you make and put out for us to learn from Even appreciate those security videos series you do (which is up to like 34 videos at the moment)

[@gracienlebel4824]

This tutorial is gold! 😍😍

[@Jonathan-ru9zl]

Mann this is so professional .. keep doing those amazing tutorials ,./.🙏🙏

[@landlocked4771]

Thank you, did it all on Fedora 34. Have you made a reference book on this, in a week I won't remember "ncdu"?

[@goman7614]

Excellent presentation. I would like to see how your mount a USB drive to a Kubernetes cluster as persistent storage running ubuntu. Thanks

[@coletraintechgames2932]

Thank you Jay. I'm trying to mount a zfs pool to proxmox. Do you have a video more towards that? Thanks again. This was a good foundation.

[@gregorydayton5428]

Jay, that was a great video. I learned a lot. Thank You

[@adzim325]

Thank you sir, your explanation so clear but please add a separator for each sub explanation, it might make it easier for viewers. Once again thank you sir

[@rayc0629]

i like your through presentation. I'm running Linux Mint 21.1 and cannot get the exfat-utils to work. "exfat-utils package not available" error from commandline and no package available from the software manager. everything I can find is several years old. can you point me in the right direction to solve this ?? Thanks RayC

[@Ivanamaria99]

so if i am using linux in a dual boot on a windows computer which should i use ext?

[@TazzyPhizzle]

I was following along and all was peachy until I tried to install the packages for exfat. "Package exfat-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source" - Any help with this? I have debian, popOS.

[@srsr6099]

Learnt something new again. Cool. Thanks Jay

[@MrRoxBrown]

hello once mounted my drive doesnt allow my to create folders or write to the disk. i tried changing permisions of the drive and have gotten no where do you have any suggestions as to how i can write to the drive thank you

[@thomasjones4131]

should I in kde partition manager put permissions to root or everyone when formatting?.

[@InmobiliariaPromueve]

Hi! Great video! I am using Ubuntu Core in a Pi for NextCloud. Is there any option to automount a disk?? Thank you!

[@thomasjones4131]

I'm using garuda kde dragonized, I formatted the extra internal drives with btrfs. kde partition manager set a mount path located in media not mtn. Does it really matter? Do i need to set a mount path to mtn? does the OS think they are external usb drives since it automatically put them in media directory? is it normal for btrfs to now assign new drives to mount under media instead of mtn? I thought kde partition manager would be able to detect if a storage device was internal or External connection type, mount internals to mtn and externals to media for you since it doesn't give you an option straight up. if i was to give it a manual mount path would be best to uninstall the games and remove the content to make it easier for launchers such as steam, etc or can i just create a folder for each added internal storage in mtn.

[@albertomendez5235]

Hello, someone knows which is the absolute path of a partition? Is the mnt point or the block device?

[@epygod]

Thank you very much. Very good Video, with on the point information! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@try-that]

nice and concise video! I hope you do a video on /etc/fstab that still has stacks of stuff in it that I don't really understand, i.e. user permissions, error checking, how to allow partition to be accessed by anyone, rather than samba. I hope you do do one.

[@DevvratYadav7]

Hi, I won’t able to re-format, remount, after running fdisk command. While mounting to /mnt/disk1 it says -> bad super block, missing code page, helper program or other error. Basically this SD card have a Ubuntu file system and now I would like to format whole SD card. Kindly suggest how to fix it. SD card is divided into two partitions 1. Part 1 - 250MB, vfat 2. Part 2 - 29.5 GB , ext4 How to recover bad supar blocks or fix it. What ever I do via command. It won’t allow to make that change .

[@teomcam]

The best channel to learn Linux 👍🏻 Thank you so much sir 👍🏻

[@KolyaNadj]

Nice video man. So many helpful commands.

[@dragonek_gnu_linux_pl]

amazing tutorial, more advenced but this is most important to know how to manage disks, mount then and umount etc without gui applications. Next one what i want to see here is tutorial how to manage networks on terminal, wireless also and how to do it without networkmanager on gentoo or other distros. You help us alot :)

[@BierPizzaChips]

How do I expand /home by making that partition manage multiple discs? Background: Being a Newbie trying Linux after many years once more, I learned that it is meanwhile supporting games e.g. via Steam - which is awesome, since such was the main reason for me sticking around with Microsoft. But games are large content. So I tried first to add my second HDD to the Linux installation and killed it successfully not booting anymore. Then I reinstalled using the whole second HDD as /home partition and got a nice amount of space for some time to go. But since games perform better from SSD and more space may be required soon, I would love to expand(?) my /home in a way, that all user homes have more space available including the SSD - not by adding folders but by just having more space. I found info about some NAS/LVM stuff, but that's beyond me. Plus I would love managing such with a guiding GUI since I am a Windows-Stupid. Do you have any video explaining such or do you have one coming up? (Thumbs up and subscribed of course ❤😊.) Btw: I am with Suse Leap 15.5, Gnome. Choice of distro by personal historical reasons since spot checked Linux from time to time over the last 25 years via Suse. Edit: Do not worry about my question regards partitions on Linux - i found 'gparted'. But i still would love to know how i can increase the home of users by adding new disc spaces e.g. an SSD to the existing /home on HDD - not as a link but simply by making that partition become 'bigger' by including further SSDs. Business case: Increasing my space for Steam games without losing the already existing files.

[@takshpatel8109]

thank you so much, i found your videos more useful for linux and linode

[@jonemiller9603]

Linode is pretty good for Linux in my opinion I think what will make it better is adding modules for beginners and advanced users

[@zt.5677]

Great Linux tutorials. And special thanks for the Proxmox videos.

[@tesiareek2184]

Hello, How do I make the drive writable by other computers connected to the network?

[@markbarnes-rider7035]

Hi Jay, I’ve recently built the hardware for a home server and am new to Linux I’ve been following your videos and have a question on hardware raid. My server has a separate hardware raid controller, is it possible to use hardware raid with Ubuntu ? I am at the very early stages of installing Ubuntu so haven’t mounted any of my hdd I have put them in hot swappable caddies. Any advice would be appreciated thanks….Mark

[@johnmcgiv1]

Great videos, excellent presentation Jay. I am 70+ trying to teach myself Linux. I installed linux mint22 only problem being boot time, about 6/7 minutes I have tried several solutions but unable to reduce boot time Acer Aspire 5735 4g/b mem 500g/b HDD 64bit dual processor, any suggestions most welcome, many thanks for your videos.

[@Ivanamaria99]

any suggestion for usb that would be good to use and last me a while ?

[@flexyjayofficial163]

Your videos are top notch the content is second to none

[@ym3r854]

Explanations are top notch!

[@tekidiots6863]

Brilliant Videos as always, i have been learning and trying out this with my own Raspberry Pi i inserted a flash drive followed the steps all good, if i want to mount the filesystem to / as my server is 100% used how do i do that just mount !sudo mount /dev/sda /" ?

[@Jonathan-ru9zl]

But how do you get rid of this password requirement each time you type sudo? let alone it is not always accept it when I type the correct one.

[@paulelliott2459]

I've the latest Ubuntu and installing exfat-utils errors with no installable candidate .. If added the universe repository .. But I still get the same error !

[@jenBeeDee]

thanks for this channel, it is much appreciated. Having been troubled by invalid blocks on a SSD (ouchy ;-) I sought advice and received: "Invalid blocks is usually a hardware failure. The drive is most likely dead or at least dying. With Windows by the way it should have not being fat32 but NTFS. For Ubuntu a better choice then ext2 is ext4 you seem to be working from some very old ideas" I've not got the time to pursue rehabilitation of the poorly SSD at the moment but will try again 'in due course'. Thanks again for this valuable resource.

[@TheWaqaspuri]

can we scp to mnt/desk1 as it is root permission. won't allow user to transfer files from local macOS to remote (debian)

[@kayathecloudkid]

Fantastic tutorial, thanks Jay.

[@ilyagurenko4190]

Thank you for the thorough walkthrough !

[@peterjansen4826]

Apparently I am a bad boy, I don't mount partitions in /mnt or /media (not even existing on Arch out of the box), I mount partitions in my home-folder. Why? Because file-managers and terminals open in your home-folder by default (I see no reason to change that) so I prefer to access it from there.

[@dennisdevine9563]

Great video tutorial, thank you also for the sweet extra option of the ncdu command

[@vitalysemichev5868]

Amazing video and explanations! Loved it! Thank you very much!

[@petevenuti7355]

I'm trying to follow along with all your tutorials and I got a tough question for you, I have a Debian Linux server running in a proot environment in the background of my not-rooted 10yr old Android phone, and I'm trying to permanently mount a Windows share from my twenty-year-old laptop that actually has enough space for me to do anything ! (The phone is older than OTG) I need to find a userland SMB access program capable of working with a permanent mountpoint & not requiring any kernel modules or special user permissions. If there's nothing in linux meeting those requirements then, if not a regular Windows share what form of storage sharing is common to both windows and Linux and does meet those requirements?NFS, ssh, something I've never heard of? Most of the errors I can't seem to get around are a result of being in a proot environment without root on the host and the program requiring either requiring a kernel module and/or access to the physical Network hardware.

[@petevenuti7355]

Oh and before you say "get new hardware", I'm old, retired, fixed income, can not afford.. Before you say "that will be too slow to do anything".. I'm slow, and it's just running in the background while I'm watching trying to follow your KZbin videos so I don't care..

[@diuran1919]

OK I understand how looks HDD tree and etc. but I have the same usb Drive or Inside PC the same size hdd and they called SDA SDB SDC I dont know how to check, which disk is which without unplug one of them. Is there a way to name your hdd/usb disk that I know all my partition or disk and system will remember all names for disk and partitions ?

[@f23anone82]

Great video and great series! Do I need to always create the new folder inside /mnt to mount a new device (which means, I have to remove dir every time I unmount)? What would happen if I try to mount directly to /mnt?

[@mhpreach]

The bloody LVM trap on my Ubuntu. How do I get the whole 4tb setup instead of just 200g. I need the whole disk for this server.

[@trial000000000000001]

Very informative. Thank you 😀

[@ujjwalbansal5649]

This is a super awesome tutorial sir...